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2002 Click on photos for a bigger picture. Click on browser 'back' button to return to main document. The photo above shows the stemhead fitting and bowsprit anchorage plate fitted in position.	2002 August Got going again! Decided to fit the rubbing strakes. John Glynn planed the Iroko boards for me and cut them up to size so that I could make rubbing strakes out of them. I put a 75 mm x 25 mm piece down the sides and two 25 mm square pieces inside them to cover the deck to hull joint. Saturday 31st August Worked out length of stainles steel coach bolts neded for bolting the rubbing strke on and ordered them from Felix Fasteners along with some other fixings. Worked out lengths of bolts required and ordered some zinc plated bolts for bowsprit anchorage plate 7th September Tried new bolts in bowsprit plate and marked out holes in backing plates and drilled them using my Stanley Bridges drill and stand, so much easier to drill the steel with the pressure of the drill stand. Fitted plate and stemhead fitting.	2002 Click on photos for a bigger picture. Click on browser 'back' button to return to main document.
	Thursday 12th September Prepared side boards for rubbing strakes. Cleaned underside of port board and GRP. Fixed port backstay anchorage. Assesed where scarfed joints would come. Friday 13th September  Cleaned underside of starboard side board and put more filler in discrete areas after cleaning up where I'd started yesterday. Fitted starboard backstay anchorage, sadly wrong way round but it doesn't show. Saturday 14th September Fitted port backstay anchorage to board/boat. Started to fit port rubbing strake at front after shaping front end to fit round stemhead fitting.
	Sunday 22nd September I was getting a bit 'stressed out' now so today listed every step to get the jobs done that I intended - put clamps on boat put nuts and bolts on boat put drills on boat put socket spanner, screw driver & adjustable spanner on boat get router ready get mixers and check epoxy in containers plug in electricity get pencil and marker mark 7/8" line on rail sort out support for rail offer up rail and mark: - pencil cut out for anchorage measure bolt head radius for scuppers Check screws for second rail. Sometime earlier I'd had to position the foresail sheets block anchorage brackets. should I put them back from where they came a couple of years ago or should I consult the draawing and put them where I think they should be. there wasn't much difference but both sides were different. I did the sensibe thing and put them where I'd worked out where they should be. I spent ages worrying about decisions like this, it often took days even weeks to be confident to do each job. Anyway it was beginning to look good. All my fears of being unable to bend the rails were disappearing as each one was sucessfully fitted. Saturday 28th September Gel coat? - L.H.S. 2^nd rail What did these notes mean, looking at them now in January 2004? John Glynn had made the scarf joint tapers on the 75 mm pieces but I was faced with making the tapers on the 25 mmm square inner pieces of the rubbing strake composite beams. I, sensibly, made a jig, a complex (something) board that I just clamped the ends into and then cut the taper with my tennon saw, which worked between two guides. It produced reasonable joints, I'm pleased to say. Another mind problem solved. Thursday 3rd October Instruction notes say fit last two pieces to port side. I must have done this and plugged the holes as well. Notes also say ascertain what's required at stern. I think that now, January 2004, I've decided how I'll do it.
	Thursday 10th October Made new support for mast so that we could remove tabernacle. must have removed mast tabernacle round about now. Wednesday 30th October Marked out new holes for tabernacle and drilled them out. Prepared the mast step for glassing over. Thursday 31st October Plugged old holes in mast step and beam and fibre-glasses the mast step in. We'd filled and shaped the big piece of mahogany when we did the deck but it's taken all this time to getting round to finishing off the deck sheathing. Tidied up further and discarded useless items. Very satisfying day. At the beginning of October we decided that Sue must have some respite so we put Sue's mum in a nursing home for a couple of weeks. They messed up her diabetes and she ended up in hospital after a few days. She came out of hospitall in time fo her 90^th birthday on 21^st November but had to go back in and died in the early hours of the 9^th December. We didn't get away after all and naturally these events gradually brought work to a halt.
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